Daily Media Digest October 10, 2018

Globalnews.ca
“… the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute and community health department, as well as a representative from Alberta Health Services.”
TAGS: cannabis, health impacts, legalization

 

CBC.ca
“Poverty, mental health and addiction researcher, Lawson Research Institute. Currently a big challenges for people living with mental illness, including …”
TAGS: vulnerable populations, mental illness, housing

 

CBC.ca
“One in five Canadians experience a mental illness or addiction problem in any given year, according to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, …”
TAGS: mental health, mindfulness, meditation

 

The London Free Press
“Researchers at Western University found getting too much shut-eye and sleeping too little equally impair brain-power and cognition – preliminary …”
TAGS: sleep study, neuroscience

 

CTV News
“An Alberta Health Services Clinical Psychologist, Scott Purdon, is set to expand his study about smoking and then getting behind the wheel once pot is …”
TAGS: cannabis, health effects, legalization

 

McGill Newsroom
“Today, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, announced more than $558 million in discovery research funding across …”
TAGS: NSERC, Discovery Grants Competition, research funding

 

CBC.ca
“‘This is a health crisis’- Ontario MPP calls for action after Bearskin Lake … Community and Social Services and Greg Rickford, the Indigenous Affairs …”
TAGS: Indigenous, youth suicide, access to health care

 

CBC.ca
“”Diabetes Canada and parent volunteers have been working on this for some time, so this is a good day,” said Jake Reid, senior leader of government …”
TAGS: diabetes, students, children